<p>Hello again! I hope everyone's been enjoying the new rc3, but while you're at it, I felt it wasn't good enough. So here's <strong>rc4</strong> with more bugfixes than the previous release and with all the v6 goodness.</p>

<td>Implemented automatic elevation when unused free space erasures are requested from the shell extension. <strong>A quick note</strong>: what this does is the request for unused space erasures automatically elevate themselves. However, since the erasures are still done by the running Eraser instance which may not have been elevated, the erasures may still fail. The behaviour is however different when there is no Eraser instance running: the spawned instance of Eraser will automatically be elevated.</td>

<p>FAT erasures and compressed/encrypted NTFS file erasures have not been implemented, for reasons outlined in this <ahref="http://bbs.heidi.ie/viewtopic.php?p=14484#p14484">forum post</a>. Lastly, I'd like to once again thank the community for your support through the entire development process of v6. It is very greatly appreciated.</p>

<p><strong>Disclaimer: The security of the erasures has not been verified by internal or external entities. The code is still of <em>beta quality</em> and may not remove all traces of files with the confidence of Version 5. If you have security concerns, do use Version 5 while the security aspects of Version 6 are ironed out.</strong> It is however noteworthy that v6 uses only <em>documented API's</em> for erasure and therefore the risk of corrupting your drives is lower than Version 5. </p>

<p>If you have read the disclaimer, follow the instructions about <strong><ahref="../trac/wiki/InstallingBetas">installing betas</a></strong> then <strong><ahref="../download.php?id=9">Download it now.</a></strong></p>

<p>Eraser 5.8.7 stable is finally released after being too long in the making! This version brings with it Unicode changes, allowing the erasure of file names containing non English characters as well as the Portable distribution being a supported distribution. <ahref="20090611.html">See the full announcement.</a></p>

<p>Having written almost 25,000 lines of code since the start of our project, v6 was due for a code review. So that's what I did, reviewed the code with the help of a static code analysis tool (FxCop for you developers out there :) ) and fixed all sorts of inconsistencies in the code. This should result in slightly higher performance and better behaviour when Eraser is in use. <ahref="20090610.html">See the full announcement.</a></p>